We had a great open #robotics Bird of Feathers at #fosdem2024 today. Thanks to all the attendees and thanks Windel and Lucas for the impromptu lightning talks. #fosdem.
And besides, if you want to automate making burgers and fries, you would redesign the entire kitchen around a simpler system of automation, not create a gigantic ceiling-mounted robot arm that manipulates implements meant for human use.
NASA says Ingenuity, the helicopter on Mars, has finally reached the end of its mission.
I first learned about the then-upcoming Ingenuity mission when I met NASA's Dave Lavery in Houston with an FLL Junior robotics team I was coaching in 2020. That remains one of my robotics highlights.
🦾 NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon | @futurism
「 The project called Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments (LASSIE) is designed to teach the robot to adapt to its varying environment in real-time, with the goal of eventually having it traverse the surface of the Moon and perhaps even other worlds in our solar system 」
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Very happy to see this research drawing such attention!
Understanding what a robot is conveying is crucial if we plan to have one in our homes in the near future. One way is for the robots to express emotions, but it is challenging to generate these emotions in real-time which are both context appropriate and well understood by humans.